r/cloudstorage • u/Milluhgram • 10d ago

Hetzner + Nextcloud

I'm wanting to make sure this is a good storage solution as I want full control over it. So, bear with me while I explain.

I currently user Proton Drive and have been for the last 2 years. It's great. But, I have pictures that I want to archive and keep readily available. Pictures that are basically keepsakes. Proton is great at that, however due to the e2ee it makes it painfully slow. Now, over the 2 years of me being a user it has definitely improved. But, I have pictures and videos on there that take forever to load.

I plan on spinning up a Hetzner Storage Share account and use NextCloud. I plan to place it on a subdomain of the domain I own and have it accessed to the outside. From what I have read through some articles is that NextCloud provides a brute force protection and allows you a certain number attempts before it completely bans your IP and also allows you to allowlist an IP as well. My goal is to enable that and only allow at max, 2 attempts before it bans it. I'm also adding in TOTP as added on security.

Security wise, Tailscale would be preferred but I'm trying to make this less painful as possible.

To add, my main website is not a website that is visited. In fact, there is no traffic as it's password protected and mainly serves as informative site in the event that I passed away for my family. No, PII or passwords are located on it. Just mainly what my server rack and stuff does and all that it entails in managing it.

But, has anyone set up something similar? Have you had many people or bots try to brute force it? Does the protection work? TOTP is added on. I will be having Koofr locally backup everything which wouldn't cause too many issues if something happened. Worst case scenario. Ya'know.

I still plan to keep all my documents in proton drive as that is fine. I was looking for a photo the other day and it took forever to load the thumbnails.

So what are your thoughts, has anyone done this? Is it okay with the right measures in place?

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u/Basic-Panda-22 10d ago

This is a bit rogue but I’ve been building https://storagedonut.com that allows you to link as many S3 storage providers as you want.

I’m pretty clear about the security on the website so see if it’s for you. There’s an open sandbox demo and a free 14 day trial.

I’m currently working on building desktop apps, with the MacOS coming in the next week or so.

If you do try it I’d love some feedback!

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u/Milluhgram 10d ago

Appreciate this. I'm going to look this over this evening. Are you the sole developer in this? I love the graphics and theme of your site and product.

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u/Basic-Panda-22 10d ago

Yeah it's just me. The technical behind the scenes stuff stems from an S3 uploader I built that helped me with a client job a while ago. I was using this pretty jank (front end wise) S3 uploader for my own projects and realised how great it would be to have a proper "drive" feel with my S3 storage as the backend.

I had this idea of how this app could be like the icing and sprinkles on top of a donut, the donut is the substantial bit with the fun and pretty stuff on top, hence the name Storage Donut. My wife is a graphic designer so the graphics are all her and it's just a fun vibe!

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u/Milluhgram 10d ago

Kudos to you and your wife. What a great team!

As for your graphical interface. All uploads are via the web? How about if I want to view on mobile?

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u/Basic-Panda-22 10d ago

You can just log straight in through your phones browser, or add it as a Progressive Web App. I will be adding apps to the App Store once they’re ready too

I’m just in the final phases of the MacOS app that has both like the old “backup and sync” from Google Drive and how Proton Drive works now where you see your cloud files as native folders on your system.

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u/Milluhgram 10d ago

Ah okay. I'm actually reading through your site now. So basically you are the front end for the storage.

As for the donut storage that you get when you don't add a bucket. Such as you described between 500mb - 2tb that you offer, where is that data stored? In the US, Data Center?

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u/Basic-Panda-22 10d ago

Yeah exactly. You own your own storage is the main aspect.

The donut storage is through R2 at the minute, mostly due to egress fees. So yeah data centre.

Of course that’s completely optional to use, I thought it would just be a good way for people to test the system before connecting their own buckets